Andrew was a 23 year-old car mechanic who had been suffering from indigestion for some months before the GP referred him to a hospital consultant, who after a series of tests diagnosed cancer of the colon, with liver secondaries. At this time Andrew was living alone in a small flat a few minutes’ drive from his parents’ home. Because the treatment which Andrew had agreed to involved a long recovery, he decided to move back home with his parents for a while so that he would have someone to

A second important principle is providing feedback to the user – for example, when you press a button it moves and clicks, or you hear some other sound or you see a light to indicate the action has been registered by the machine.

Here's another short video clip from Phillip Joe at IDEO, this time on feedback.

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We saw above that the vector 2v can be regarded as the vector v ‘followed by’ the vector v; we can also quite naturally describe this vector as being the ‘sum’, v + v, of the vector with itself.

Analogously, if p is the vector 2 cm E and q is the vector 3 cm NE, we can think of the ‘sum’ p + q of the vectors as follows. Starting from a given point, O say, draw the vector p; starting from its finishi

Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Thought, learning, perception, reasoning, and language are all cognitive abilities powered by the soft squishy gray stuff inside our skulls. After a quick-and-dirty introduction to neurons and the brain, we'll examine several aspects of human cognition and look at the neurophysiology that underlies them. We'll also discuss methods used to study these areas, read some current research, and navigate the wilds of the science library.Author(s): Abby Noyce

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